Brion James, Franklyn Seales, Fred Ward
More than merely Deliverance in the Louisiana bayou, Walter Hill's taut little tale of weekend-warrior National Guardsmen on swamp exercises reverberates with echoes of Vietnam. Powers Booth br...( read more
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DVD Release Date: May 22, 2001
Stats: 289 reviews
On exercises in the swamps of Louisiana, some National Guardsmen provoke an indigenous Cajun trapper community and find themselves systematically hunted for sport. As Robert Aldrich's "Too Late the Hero" and John Boorman"s "Deliverance" covered somewhat similar ground, "Southern ...( read more)
Atmospheric variation on the Deliverance theme involving a collection of arrogant gun-toting rednecks in uniform biting off more than they can chew in the lawless louisiana swamp. Could also be read as an allegory of the US involvement and subsequent defeat in Vietnam (if you are...( read more)
A combination of macho action and survival horror. Sort of putters along with only brief moments of excitement for most of the runtime until it reaches a pitch-perfect climax in the last ten minutes. Ends on a strong enough note to warrant a second viewing sometime down the line.
Out gunned - cut off -abandoned
no one gets out alive so forget about it my the things that lie hidden in the swamp somebody lives there who?
This movie is fucking entertaining as all get out. Just look at the line up in this movie: Powers Boothe, Fred Ward, Carradine, these guys are all great in this trashier version of Deliverance. But instead of that plastic Reynolds and Voight facing rednecks, these guys are facing...( read more)
Southern Comfort (1981)
This is a great survival action movie, written and directed by Walter Hill, and of course, I loved the southern psychedelic slide guitar work of Ry Cooder that sets the mood. The allegory of this setting is obviously Vietnam (and maybe even Iraq, now) sh...( read more)
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